we started off the on the greatest foot by literally getting lost because we took the left lane and not the right, which resulted in mom yelling because she couldn’t get her call on speakerphone, neither could i, and so we had to loop that shit like fruit loops. then there’s li-ning, the poodle, who i’m calling ‘lím’ which means to lick in vietnamese because he couldn’t stop licking me while he sat in my lap. i also just took a shower so my body wash must be really tasty. once we got here, we ending up meeting someone who offered pre-flight assistance for a fee and good lord, did we need her. things resulted in ripping open every taped up cardboard box and repacking all the boxes AND carryons and their contents because the weights weren’t evenly distributed. also, in the process, we had to take some items out that weren’t going to pass inspection and im sad about that because mom bought these fried fish sauce pork skin chunks that are addictive, but japan doesn’t allow for pork products 😭. on top of everything, i literally woke up minutes after online check in became available this morning, typed in everyone’s information, got an error message, typed it in AGAIN, for it still not to work. at least we’re here now, but it still wasn’t fun to experience.